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SES San Francisco 2011: Quotables Pt. 4

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During our attendance at the 2011 SES San Francisco event, we made a point of live-tweeting notable quotes and facts from our favorite sessions and are proud to present our readers with a selection of our favorites.  Topics covered include Information Architecture, SEO Tools, User Generated SEO, WordPress, HTML5 and Mobile Marketing.

In today’s posting, we’ll cover the fourth installment of SES San Francisco 2011 quotables, highlighting our favorite nuggets of information taken away from the event.  Did you catch Pt. 1 and Pt. 2?  How about Pt. 3?  Here’s Pt. 4!

HTML5: A Cowpath on a Cliff

During his presentation, Karl Dubost (Opera) shared many nuggets of truth which were taken away from SES SF and remembered as some of our absolute favorites from the experience as a whole.  He spoke English as a second language, held a keen sense of humor and kept us (literally) on the edge of our seats throughout the entire session.  Here are a couple of our favorite takeaways:

Simply stated and often unappreciated by developers (no offense intended), the above quote reminds us of the days spent beta testing, submitting bug fixes, alternatives and feature requests.

Essentially, if you neglect the opinions of those who will actually be using your site/service, you can kiss your paycheck goodbye.

Fact: HTML5 is not yet standardized.  The year 2014 is supposedly when this will take place.  Until then…

As you read the above quote, you may be asking yourself if this guy really knows what he’s talking about.  It’s a bit of a cache 22, but there’s a great deal of truth to the fact that public HTML5 knowledge is vague.  Don’t worry, it will get better.

This is an interesting one.  Making sure that your site/service accommodates those with accessibility issues is more important that you may think.  It all comes back to remembering that your users determine your site’s success — even if they’re impaired in some way, shape or form.

The above quote is another one that caught us off guard.  It is so simple, yet so often forgotten.  If you need to migrate between social networks, how do you make sure to bring your friends (contacts) with you?  Your address book, of course!

Did we ever think that this would be a reality?  Not until recently, but evidence is fully supporting the above statement.  Where does it leave developers?  Scrambling to ensure that their sites display well on (all) mobile devices.  Not an easy task, but well worth it in the grand scheme of things.

Further support of the previous quote.  Start with mobile, end with satisfaction.

Sage-like advice.  Hands down.  This will ensure longevity of your code.

Those are our favorites from HTML5: A Cowpath on a Cliff … Do you have a favorite quote from above or found within Pt. 1, Pt. 2 or Pt. 3?  Perhaps you’d like to share?  Please leave a comment below for other readers to see.  We’ll be prepping our final installment!

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Coming up next … SES San Francisco 2011: Quotables Pt. 5!

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